HSPH Office of Diversity

Faculty Ambassadors

HSPH Faculty Ambassadors are partnered with key faculty and administrators at Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs), top Minority-Serving Institutions (MSIs), schools with a large number of under represented minority students, and/or other selected schools to:

  1. Provide information about HSPH by presenting research topics to students and faculty;
  2. Encourage students to explore summer internship programs, degree programs and fellowship opportunities in public health as well as acting as a point of contact for any interested students;
  3. Expand the HSPH admission committee’s knowledge of partner institutions and their students in addition to alerting those institutions to any special initiatives.

Faculty Ambassadors (click the links in the left hand column to view the faculty pages)

  • Rebecca Betensky, PhD, Professor of Biostatistics
  • Joseph Brain, SD, Faculty Ambassador Chair, Cecil K and Philip Drinker Professor of Environmental Physiology
  • Felton Earls, MD, Professor of Human Behavior and Development
  • Michael Grusby, PhD, Senior Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Diversity; Professor of Immunology and Infectious Diseases
  • Ichiro Kawachi, MD, PhD, Chair of the Department of Society, Human Development, and Health; Professor of Social Epidemiology; Associate Professor of Medicine (Epidemiology)
  • Meredith Rosenthal, PhD, Associate Professor of Health Economics and Policy
  • Kasisomayajula Viswanath, PhD, Associate Professor of Society, Human Development, and Health
  • Marc Weisskopf, PhD, ScD, The Mark and Catherine Winkler Assistant Professor of Environmental and Occupational Health
  • Walter Willett, DrPH, Chair of the Department of Nutrition; Fredrick Stare Professor of Epidemiology and Nutrition
  • David Wypij, PhD, Senior Lecturer on Biostatistics; Associate Professor of Pediatrics

Faculty Ambassador Program Schools

Clark Atlanta University, Atlanta, GA
Fisk University, Nashville, TN
Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
Meharry Medical College, Nashville, TN
Morehouse College, Atlanta, GA
Morgan State University, Baltimore, MD
Tennessee State University, Nashville, TN
University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA
University of Colorado, Boulder, Boulder, CO
University of Maryland at Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD
Xavier University of Louisiana, New Orleans, LA